Mills Junction, Utah

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Benson Milllisted 1972

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1885 USGS Tooele Valley quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1953 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Mills Junction quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1972 USGS Mills Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Mills Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,279 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lake Point
• Lago
• Lake Point Junction
• Stansbury park
• Erda
• Lincoln

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mills Junction: 12 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Tooele County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437638. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.